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The Price of Individuality


The poem ‘My Last Duchess,’ written by Robert Browning, and first published in 1842 tells the tale of a Duke, and his late Duchess. Written in 28 rhyming couplets, with dominance of the iambic pentameter, the poem reads more like a conversation... read more

What is Nanotechnology?


Nanotechnology is the most exciting scientific innovation of the twentieth century. It has the potential of changing every aspect of our life on this earth, in a progressive as well as regressive way. It has already had some success in making bette... read more

Promising career


In Bernard Malamud’s The Natural, which suggests a mythological cycle of birth and death based on the seasons of baseball, the train represents birth. As the story opens and the characters are introduced, we find them in a train to Chicago. Roy H... read more

Compare and Contrast Mitosis and Meiosis


Cell division is the basis of life itself. It is how humans and animals grow and reproduce. When cells divide, two or four daughter cells are produced from one mother cell. Cellular division has three main functions: reproduction of an entire unice... read more

Remember the Titans


When watching Remember the Titans; a Walt Disney Pictures film about the 1971 integration of a Virginia High School football team; many questions of leadership and morality arise. In a time when racial tension was high, an African American coach, p... read more

Plato’s theories


A number of influences shaped the cultural, political, religious and social structure of Greco-Roman civilization over the course of its evolution. Originating around 2700 BC with the first “Greeks” on the southern coast of Europe on the Medite... read more

Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush


Susanna Moodie’s narrative, Roughing it in the Bush, describes the adventures of the author during her emigration from England to Canada. The narrative is written in a humorous and entertaining manner, offering an interesting and unique perspecti... read more

American people


Modernization of the west took place between the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, and had a lasting impact on the culture of the West, primarily, the United States (Encarta, 2009). Liberalism, romanticism, and feminism played a tremendous ... read more

Moral Philosophy, Ethics and Jane Austen


Good philosophers are those who can argue and compare their viewpoints with that of others. Jane Austen created several works with characters that display her ideals on both moral philosophy and ethics. Austen’s characters face ethical issues qui... read more

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick


Herman Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick, is a profound, philosophical meditation on life centered on the symbolic hunt for the white whale. The divine connotations of the whale are evident. In Melville’s works, nature is transparent enough to ... read more

Mother Teresa


A couple named Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu gave birth to a baby girl named Agnes. Agnes was born on November 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Agnes had four siblings but two died. Only Agnes’s brother (Lazar) and sister (Aga) were still alive. Th... read more

The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse


1) Director: Those who detest chaos and take charge (flaw: intolerance) 2) Line 46-47, page 2 3) Mourad is taking charge of the situation by informing the narrator what to do. Since the horse has gotten away, the situation is now one of a hectic na... read more

Chopin’s words


Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and Hemingway’s “A clean well-lighted place”, written around a quarter of century apart offer striking similarities in the way natural phenomenon of storm (in the case of Chopin) and darkness and light (in Hemi... read more

Methodological approach


A combination of both primary and secondary research will be conducted in researching a subject matter for this dissertation. Primary data is essential to validate secondary data. Primary evidence will be collected through a quantitative method usi... read more

The Scarlet Letter


Melville’s The Confidence Man and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter are very different in terms of theme and structure. The Confidence Man is a novel that greatly transcends the limits of a traditional, nineteenth century work. It is an allegory f... read more

Narrative Configuration


Postmodernism greatly impacted the novel as a genre and its main tenets. The previous centuries had striven towards the unification of meaning, towards grand narratives that offered to unravel the mysteries of human experience on earth. These grand... read more

World War II


Language is a very important component in a person’s life. It is a way of communicating a person’s thoughts and feelings to another, as well as forming bonds and relationships with others. While some people may have only one way of communicatin... read more

Virgin and Rogier van der Wayden


Masaccio,Trinity with a Virgin and Rogier van der Wayden: A Comparison Two of the most recognizable works of art from the fifteenth century are Trinity with a Virgin by Masaccio painted in fourteen twenty-eight and Deposition painted by Rogier van ... read more

Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis


Martin Amis was born in Cardiff on August 25, 1949. He was educated in schools in Wales, England, Spain and the USA and graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with First Class Honours in English. He is known as one of the most influential and advan... read more

Saudi Arabia


Refer to next paragraph. On the 11th of March, 2002, fire struck a girls school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Firemen and concerned citizens were quickly on the scene. However, the religious police locked the schoolgirls inside the inferno rather than le... read more

Pro-Lifers and Pro-choice


Abortion has always been a heated topic of debate by Pro-Lifers and Pro-choice people alike. My personal reflection on this topic is that a woman must have the right to choose. The Pro-choice agenda has been distorted over the years. Many people be... read more

Philosophy, History and Science


Henry Ford, the father of modern assembly lines used in mass production, became one of the richest and popular persons in the world. He was a productive inventor and was awarded 161 U. S. patents. He was also the founder of Ford Motor Company in Am... read more

Can Terrorist Acts Of Violence Be Morally Justified?


The human mind is a reflection of what goes around it. According to Sigmund F. the actions taken by human being are normally guided by three factors id, Ego and Super ego. The id is the inborn tract that specially identifies an individual ways of b... read more

A Comparative Study


Plato, in his famous cave allegory from Book VII of The Republic, imagines a group of prisoners confined in a subterranean cave like structure where their only glimpse of reality is what is projected to them from outside in the form of shadows. All... read more

The Greatest Contributions of the Communist


One of the world’s best philosophers that ever lived was the German philosopher and forerunner of communism, Karl Marx. Throughout his life, Marx dedicated himself to conceptualizing ideas for the modern industrial society. Along with friend Frie... read more

American Culture


In the Apology 30e Socrates appears before the Athenian counsel to face charges of corrupting the youth and introducing new gods during which he offers a description of his divine calling for the city: “I was attached to this city by the god—th... read more

What is Education?


Plato defines education as that which makes good men, for he held the idea that good men act nobly. Plato believes in education because he outlined two visions in education and even some of methodologies to be used in education. His book Republic o... read more

Philosophy: John Locke and the Self


John Locke’s conception of the “self” depends to one single idea: consciousness. Locke argues that the self of a particular person is attributed to his perception and not his “substance” (a person’s composition whether physical or not).... read more

Study of Plato’s The Laws


Plato’s The Laws, written at the turn of the 4th century BC, is composed in dialogue form and opens with a questioning of who is given the credit for laying down the laws of the land. Unlike many of Plato’s writings, Socrates dos not participat... read more

Philosophy Argument Portfolio


In the argument there were many premises. These included the explicit premise that without fundamental knowledge a person is unable to make a decision on a related topic that is in the best interest overall. Another area is that there is a huge dif... read more